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Analyzing sewage poop in Nairobi averted a polio crisis and is now providing answers for antibiotic resistance
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In 2018, the Kenyan ministry of health discovered a vaccine-derived polio outbreak when studying sewage samples in Nairobi. They immediately launched a renewed polio campaign targeting 2.8 million children in high risk areas. Kenya had, from 1988 to 2017, reduced the number of children suffering from polio-related paralysis from 350,000 a year to 22 and is close to eradicating polio.Now, poop has come again to the rescue. This time in helping cash strapped scientists understand the extent and state of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in different slums in Nairobi. AMR refers to the phenomenon of disease-causing microorganisms such as bacteria evolving to withstand attacks from medicine meant t

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